A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684
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Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.
—Babylonian Talmud, c. 600No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverbBlessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955Music sweeps by me as a messenger / Carrying a message that is not for me.
—George Eliot, 1868When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.
—William Faulkner, 1958